Summary

Chapter 55: Magwitch is arrested and a few days later is to be tried in court. Meanwhile, Herbert informs Pip that he has to leave for Cairo with Clara. Before he leaves, however, he makes Pip promise that he will come live with them for a while. When Pip is returning home, he runs into Wemmick. Wemmick asks if he could take a holiday and asks Pip to join him for a walk on that day. Pip agrees to and while they're on their walk, they end up at a church. Wemmick and Miss Skiffins then get married right there and they have a party afterwards.

Chapter 56: Pip visits Magwitch everyday and he continually becomes more sick everyday. At his trial, he is found guilty, but due to his poor health conditions, is not hanged right away. Pip spends all the time he can with Magwitch leading up to his doom. One day, he is worse than the others and so Pip stays with him and tells him that his daughter is healthy, beautiful, and that he loves her. Then Magwitch passes away as Pip says, "O Lord, be merciful to him a sinner!"


Chapter 57: Pip becomes ill until he is delusional. He is laying on a couch when debt collectors come to arrest him. He tries to get up and get dressed but then tells the collectors that he is in no shape to leave. They leave and Pip spends a long time being sick. He hallucinates constantly about Joe, and as he starts to get better, Pip realizes Joe is actually there. While Joe is there helping him, Joe informs Pip that Miss Havisham is dead or as he puts it "no longer living." He also informs him that Orlick has been placed in jail for robbing Pumblechook. Joe pays off Pip's debt after he is better and leaves to go back home. He leaves a note which makes Pip realize his feelings for Biddy and he decides to go home to her.

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What happens to Pip

  • His best friend goes to Cairo
  • He visits Magwitch
  • He becomes sick
  • He becomes delusional
  • He talks to Joe
  • He falls in love with Biddy

New Information on Old Characters

  • Magwitch- Arrested, goes on trial, placed in jail, becomes sick, dies
  • Wemmick- Joined in Holy Matrimony with Ms. Skiffins, Halloa
  • Orlick- Sentenced to jail for stealing from Pumblechook
  • Havisham- "No longer living"

Literary Terms

  • imagery: "The whole scene starts out... he must prepare himself to die." -page 425-426
  • simile: "For the tenderness of Joe was so beautifully proportioned to my need that I was like a little child in his hands." -page 434
  • flashback: "I thought of the eventful Christmas Day he carried me over the marches..." -page 435
  • foreshadow: "The purpose was that I would go to Biddy..." -page 439
  • imagery: "To the present hour, the weary western streets of London... are melancholy to me from this association." -page 427
  • metaphor: "... that I was a brick in the house wall, ... that I passed through these phases of disease, ..." -page 430
  • irony: "...I feel thankful that I have been ill, Joe." -page 438
  • imagery: "The whole scene starts out... he must prepare himself to die." -page 425-426
  • personification: "The sun was striking in at the great windows of the court..." -page 426